Tag Archives: Piers Morgan

“The gun lobby in America, led by the NRA, has bullied this nation’s politicians into cowardly, supine silence….This is a shameful situation that, frankly, has made me very angry — so angry, in fact, that some people are criticizing me for being too loud, opinionated, even rude when I’ve debated the issue of guns. But I make no apologies for that….It’s down to you. It is your country. These are your gun laws. And the senseless slaughter will only end when enough Americans stand together and cry, enough!”— CNN’s Piers Morgan wrapping up the last edition of Piers Morgan Live, March 28.

“Man-made climate change happens. Man-made climate change kills a lot of people. It’s going to kill a lot more. We have laws on the books to punish anyone whose lies contribute to people’s deaths. It’s time to punish the climate-change liars….Denialists should face jail. They should face fines….I’m talking about Rush and his multi-million-dollar ilk in the disinformation business. I’m talking about Americans for Prosperity and the businesses and billionaires who back its obfuscatory propaganda….Those malcontents must be punished and stopped.”— Gawker.com staff writer Adam Weinstein in a March 28 post, “Arrest Climate-Change Deniers.”

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CNN’s “Card-Carrying Member of ObamaCare” Insists It’s Not Socialism

“I guess you could say I’m a card-carrying member of ObamaCare. While reviewing my options, something occurred to me. You know who should be angry about ObamaCare? Real socialists. The Tea Party opponents of the Affordable Care Act promised them a government incursion that the new law doesn’t deliver on….The only liberty interest that’s being sacrificed under the Affordable Care Act is one’s ability to be uninsured. And even that is violable. You can still exercise your right to be uninsured, but you’re going to have to pay a fine. Look, it’s too soon to know if the law’s going to work. We need to know about the mix within the states between the healthy and the sick and whether premiums are affordable. The only thing for certain is what it isn’t — socialism.”— New CNN host Michael Smerconish during his 9pm ET hour Smerconish, April 1.

“Chris Christie, is his weight a genuine issue for the American people after a fit athletic president who turned out to be not quite what people thought?…After the perfect Barack Obama — who’s a perfect physical specimen to many people’s eyes — does it matter?”
— CNN host Piers Morgan talking to crisis management expert Judy Smith on Piers Morgan Live, December 1, 2013.

9. Morgan Slams Limbaugh Yet Laughs at Maher’s Vulgarity

“Limbaugh’s disgusting comments are the work of an archaic old dinosaur living in a warped, ugly swamp, who thinks it’s okay to degrade decent young women for sport and ratings. Well, it isn’t. Shame on you, Rush Limbaugh.”
— CNN’s Piers Morgan wrapping up his Piers Morgan Tonight, March 2, 2012.

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Host Piers Morgan: “If you had a choice, gun to your head, which one is it? Palin or Bachmann?”
HBO Real Time host Bill Maher: “I would need a gun to my head. I hope Sarah Palin gets in so that they split the MILF vote.” [both laugh] …
Morgan: “May you remain gloriously uncensored on HBO….Love the show.”
— CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, July 11, 2011. MILF is an acronym for a “Mother I’d Like to F—”

8. Post-Partisan Obama vs. “Express Train of Bile”

“Obama, to be fair to him, when he came in to power, he said ‘Look, I’m going to try to change all of this partisan crap that’s going on. I’m going to try and do it a better way.’ What he’s found is he can’t at the moment. I mean, it’s like he’s up against this express train of bile, and he can’t get anything done.”
— CNN’s Piers Morgan to comedian Lewis Black on Piers Morgan Tonight, Sept. 28, 2011.

7. Fawning Over the Dictator of Love…

Host Piers Morgan: “How many times in your life, Mr. President, have you been properly in love?”
Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (via translator): “I’m in love with all of humanity. I love all human beings.”
Morgan: “That might be the best answer I’ve ever heard to that question.”
— CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, September 24, 2012.

6. Morgan Savages “Unbelievably Stupid” Gun Rights Advocate

Gun Owners of America executive director Larry Pratt: “I honestly don’t understand why you would rather have people be victims of a crime than be able to defend themselves. It’s incomprehensible.”
CNN host Piers Morgan: “You’re an unbelievably stupid man, aren’t you?…You have absolutely no coherent argument whatsoever….You don’t give a damn, do you, about the gun murder rate in America?…I know why sales of these weapons have been soaring in the last few days. It’s down to idiots like you. Mr. Pratt….You are a dangerous man espousing dangerous nonsense. And you shame your country.
— From the imported British host’s anti-gun tirade on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, December 18, 2012.

5. “A Lot of Things Are Just Perfect About Barack Obama”

“When you watch the President like that, I always feel he’s got so many pluses, doesn’t he? In a sense, he’s personable, he’s handsome, he can be funny. You know, abroad he has this great image for America. A lot of things are just perfect about Barack Obama.”
— Host Piers Morgan to Obama strategist David Axelrod on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, December 5, 2011.

4. British Host Belittles Constitution: Your “Little Book”

Host Piers Morgan: “The way that the NRA through the ’80s and ’90s and this last decade have deliberately tried to frame this as a left-wing attack on the American Constitution and the Second Amendment — it’s exactly what you’ve tried to do. You come in, you brandish your little book [holds up book] as if I don’t know what’s in that-”
Author Ben Shapiro: “My little book? That’s the Constitution of the United States.”
— Exchange on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, January 10, 2013.

3. Morgan Smears: “You Know Elements of the Tea Party Are Racist”

“I’ve had a lot of guests on recently getting very hot under the collar about the Tea Party….black Americans, leading black Americans who say the Tea Party is racist. And I know that your fairly humorous response is to say, ‘I looked in the mirror and I appear to be a black man, and I’m in the Tea Party,’ which I get and you’re perfectly entitled to say that. But you all know there are elements of the Tea Party who are racist. It’s a trade secret. How do you deal with that as a black man who is now leading the Tea Party charge?”
— Host Piers Morgan to GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, October 19, 2011.

2. Morgan Deplores America’s “Gun Culture”

Host Piers Morgan: “Do you think that the gun debate will ever change in the way that the drunk-driving debate changed in the ’70s, the civil rights debate changed from the ’60s onwards? Do you think it’s one of those things that in the end, it will change?”…
Panelist Margaret Hoover: “You and I both know that there’s a culture in the United States, a gun-owning culture. And it is the difference between rural and urban, coastal and the middle of the country-”
Morgan: “There was a racist culture, there was a drunk-driving culture…”
Liberal panelist Mark Lamont Hill: “A Southern gun owner is not like a Klan member. I mean, come on.”
— CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, May 30, 2013.

1. Tea Partiers Not Bright, Like Hitler’s Mobs?

Host Piers Morgan: “Where is the similar mob to Mussolini’s and Hitler’s in the modern democratic era?…The Tea Party?”
Ann Coulter: “No. No, no, no.”
Morgan: “The nearest thing to it in America?”
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Morgan: “Are you wild about them?…The Tea Party?”…
Coulter: “Oh, yeah, I love them.”
Morgan: “See, I don’t really get that….I don’t get that because you’re a smart cookie.”
Coulter: “So are the Tea Partiers!”
Morgan: “What do people think about you? You’re intelligent. You live a provocative life.”
Coulter: “I believe you’re insulting the Tea Partiers.”
Morgan: “Well, they’re not among the brightest of spellers, are they?”
— CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, June 7, 2011.

But what we currently have is a middle class that is under severe stress. Families are not thriving. The government is not working for them, but rather, it’s stealing from them. Trust in the system is failing, and even the silent main stream press is becoming confused by the problems created by liberalism.

In an interview with Tennessee Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn on Wednesday’s MSNBC Andrea Mitchell Reports, fill-in host and NBC White House correspondent Kristen Welker desperately attempted to blame Republicans for the disastrous ObamaCare website rollout: “Congress repeatedly refused to authorize requests by the Obama administration for additional funding for the rollout of the health care law. Administration officials say that funding potentially could have made a difference. So does Congress, do your colleagues bear any responsibility for this rocky rollout for refusing that funding?”Blackburn easily dismissed the absurd notion with a fact check: “I would remind you that most website developers say an aggregator website, such as what healthcare.gov is, could be built easily for a half a million dollars. They have spent a half a billion dollars.”

Piers Morgan used a fake news site to mock Sarah Palin on Twitter on Thursday. He linked to the satirical news site The Daily Currant saying that Palin claimed Jesus celebrated Easter. “And she’s back!” Morgan gloated, with absolutely no mention that the article was fake. When critics told him the website was satire, Morgan answered that he knew it was, yet he praised the notion that it was believable.

CNN’s Carol Costello admitted on air Wednesday that President Obama’s staff “can be quite nasty” to deal with. “I felt it first hand when I was, you know, reporting on the presidential race,” Costello noted. “I mean President Obama’s people can be quite nasty. They don’t like you to say anything bad about their boss, and they’re not afraid to use whatever means they have at hand to stop you from doing that, including threatening your job.”

MSNBC morning host Thomas Roberts on Tuesday continued in his role as one of MSNBC’s most rabidly partisan, openly liberal anchors. Talking to Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn about the partial government shutdown, he questioned her patriotism, sneering, “Congresswoman, let me ask you though, when it comes to ObamaCare, do you hate ObamaCare more than you love your country?” A surprised Blackburn immediately retorted, “I’ve got to tell you something. I think that comments like that” are “just incredibly inappropriate.” Parroting White House talking points, Roberts recited, “You don’t think it’s incredibly inappropriate to shut down our government and take all the hostages of Americans that you’ve taken?” After Blackburn again objected to the smear, Roberts lectured, “No, no, no. It’s not inappropriate because you’ve taken the government hostage through a shutdown and all the American people, you’re walking them to a cliff.”

More Propaganda Ministry BULL!! Williams is a talking mindless drone for Obama!!

On Monday’s NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams continued to blame Republicans for the government shutdown, asserting that the budget impasse “traces its history back to a determined core of GOP House members who are vehemently against ObamaCare and were willing to shut down the government because of it.” However, he took it a step further by hinting at a way to get rid of such troublesome members of Congress holding up President Obama’s agenda: “These members happen to be from very conservative districts where they won by big margins, and their jobs are secure more or less. And in both parties there are congressional districts that are set up by the states to keep the parties in power. But some believe if the system stays this way, our politics will kind of stay this way.”

Touting the results of an NBC News/Esquire magazine survey on Tuesday’s NBC Today of the supposed political center in America, fill-in co-host Tamron Hall proclaimed: “Interesting note, we asked the middle who they trust, guys, the most. And the answer is President Obama, Oprah Winfrey. The most trusted people according to those who fall in the middle.” In response to the finding, co-host Matt Lauer turned to his fellow co-hosts and remarked: “Sorry about that, guys.” Savannah Guthrie replied: “Oh, what, you thought we were in the running?” That prompted laughter from the group of journalists. Weatherman Al Roker added: “Yeah, I didn’t think that was coming up.” He then joked that Obama could run for a third term with Oprah as his running mate: “There’s the ticket for 2016.”

Piers Morgan still can’t get basic details about the gun rights debate right, even after his protracted involvement in the controversy, as he revealed on Tuesday’s CBS This Morning. Morgan incorrectly claimed that the First Amendment – not the Second Amendment – protected the right to keep and bear arms: “I have no problem…with a family exercising their First Amendment (sic) right to defend their families with a handgun at home.” The CNN host also praised New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg for his prominent vocal and monetary support of gun control, and took President Obama to task for his apparent lack of action on the issue

CBS This Morning on Tuesday allowed a scant 21 seconds to the newest revelations about the National Security Agency. The government organization has been secretly collecting millions of internet address books and instant message accounts from around the world, including Americans. In contrast, ABC and NBC highlighted the story in full reports and news briefs. None of the three network morning shows made any reference to Barack Obama or speculated on what the President’s responsibility might be. In the briefest of summaries, This Morning anchor Charlie Rose explained, “The agency is pulling the information from address books and buddy lists accounts on instant message accounts worldwide.” He reassuringly added, “But a government spokesman says NSA is not interested in personal information about so-called ordinary Americans.” However, the same morning show devoted three minutes to the not-so important story of President William Taft’s attempts to lose weight.